Eminem announces new album 'Recovery,' replacement for 'Relapse 2'

AP photoEminem has announced that his new album 'Recovery' will be released June 22.The "big news" is finally here.

Instead of releasing "Relapse 2," a follow-up to 2009's Relapse, Eminem will release a totally new album called "Recovery" on June 22.

"I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year," Eminem said in the press release posted today on his Web site. "But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title."

"This is definitely going to be up there with the best of his albums,
for sure, for sure," producer Just Blaze told MTV last week. "The fact that he's branched out working with a lot
of different people now, collaborating in a lot of different ways that
he never has before, I think he's going to surprise a lot of people."